Feeding the Chickens
after Muriel Dawson (1897 - 1974)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cord, Glass, Paint, Paper, Wood
Measurements
Frame: 485mm (width), 570mm (height)
Place of origin
Curzon Street, 31
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 658016
Summary
Print, coloured, Feeding the Chickens after Muriel Dawson (1900-1999). A print of an original drawing titled 'Feeding the Chickens' by Muriel Dawson A.R.C.A. The picture has a girl wearing an orange shirt and brown dungarees holding a grey bucket feeding several white, speckled and yellow hens. There are two black and white cats on a stone wall behind her, with hay stacks and black cows in the distance. The print is in a glass covered wooden frame. A label on the back reads ' Feeding the chickens - after the drawing by Muriel Dawson A.R.C.A.' and another of the framers J Pratt and Sons, picture framers, fine art dealers, artists colourmen. This picture is associated with 'Gathering Apples, and, 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor'.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mr Peter Good in June 1983.
Marks and inscriptions
Label on reverse of picture: FEEDING THE CHICKENS / AFTER THE DRAWING BY / MURIEL DAWSON A.R.C.A.
Makers and roles
after Muriel Dawson (1897 - 1974), artist J. Pratt & Sons Ltd, framemaker